Recipe for a Pest-Free Home

This is an assignment where we had free reign to make a recipe for anything. I chose a recipe for a Pest-Free Home.

Energy Drink

In this assignment I had to create a label for an energy drink that caters to young adults who enjoy the city's nightlife.

There are a lot of elements that I like about it, like the hair, the offset of the buildings and the shape of the face, but I feel like it could use a little more drama. Maybe the hair should have multiple colours? Maybe there should be more people? Maybe the lighting should fizzle out towards edges? What do you think?

The New Yorker part 2

Here is the second part to the previous post. I actually like the caterpillar better than the butterfly (which is in the previous post). If you look closely you can see how the paint did some really beautiful things in the leaf and around the spots on the caterpillar's back.

The New Yorker

The spec for this assignment I had to design a postcard for The New Yorker to send to their clients. I used yupo paper for this assignment, and I really like the effect it created.

The Perfectionist

This is not a scalable solution.

Overheard & Understood

I know. It's been a long time since I last posted anything. Life just got really hectic over the summer so there just wasn't enough time to update. But since I'm taking a break this week, I've decided to post my latest assignment.

The idea behind the assignment is to listen to a conversation and put it in a completely different context. When I finished this painting, I was pretty happy with it. I think it is because I liked the colours a lot. Now that it's been a few weeks, I'm not so satisfied because I think that the painting could more 3D. I also think that I was a bit rusty, and I think that painting on the back of an old watercolour painting didn't help either. I think that the paper didn't accept the pigment so well the second time around so that the painting doesn't have that fresh look that it usually does. Oh well. Lesson learned.

Work and Play

This assignment was pretty free form in that the only specifications were that it had to do with Work & Play. My original image was a little more complicated and I tried to simplify it down to its core idea. Dunno if there's still too much going on though.